People

Program Leader

• Prof Axel Bruns
  

  Program Leader - Digital Publics

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Chief Investigators

• Prof Jean Burgess
  

  Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

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• Distinguished Emeritus Professor Stuart Cunningham
  

  Distinguished Professor, Media and Communication

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• Dr Ehsan Dehghan
  

  Lecturer, School of Communication

• Dr Timothy Graham
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Assoc Prof Stephen Harrington
  

  Discipline Leader, School of Communication

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• Dr Jenny Hou
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
  

  Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Prof Peta Mitchell
  

  Professor, School of Communication

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• Dr Michelle Riedlinger
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Dr T.J. Thomson
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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Affiliate Investigators

• Dr Naomi Barnes
  

  Senior Lecturer in Literacy, Faculty of Education

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• Dr Helen Berents
  

  Senior Research Fellow

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• Assoc Prof Richi Nayak
  

  Associate Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty

• Assoc Prof Erin O'Brien
  

  Principal Research Fellow

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• Assoc Prof Angela Romano
  

  Associate Professor, School of Communication

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• Dr Michael Scully
  

  Lecturer in the Journalism Major at QUT

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Research Fellows

• Bo Cui
  

  Research Associate

• Dr Sofya Glazunova
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media Research Centre

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• Dr Guy Healy
  

  Research Associate

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• Dr Edward Hurcombe
  

  Research Associate

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• Dr Kelly Lewis
  

  Research Associate

• Dr Silvia Montaña-Niño
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, QUT Node of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

• Dr Abdul Obeid
  

  Data Engineer, QUT Node of ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

• Xue Ying (Jane) Tan
  

  Software Engineer

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HDR students

• Alia Azmi
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The role of The Conversation Indonesia in communicating scientific knowledge: Indonesia's digital debates on sexual violence

• Louisa Bartolo
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - You might like this, but at what cost? Considering the social responsibilities of digital platforms' recommender systems

• Mubarak Abdulla Alkebaisi (Alkubaisi)
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Internet distributed television and the disruption of the business dynamics of cultural goods in the Arabian States of the Gulf

• Dan Dai
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Comparative analysis of COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech on Chinese Weibo and the Australian Twittersphere

• Anand Badola
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Analysing the Discursive Dynamics in Social Media

• Lisa Harrison
  

  DCI Candidate | Thesis - What makes an influencer? Personal branding strategies of successful social media users

• Nadia Jude
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - ‘Have we reached tipping point?’ Determining if, who, when, where and how official actors should respond to online misinformation and disinformation.

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• Kateryna Kasianenko
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism of Digital Publics

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• Maxwell Melit
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis - Value perception and consumption habits of online news amongst young Australian adults during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

• Lucinda Nelson
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Measuring Misogyny: Digital Methods for Evaluating Structural Inequality on Social Media Platforms

• Sam Regi
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis - Impacts of Process Journalism with marginalised communities: Amplifying the voices of the Royal Commission into Aged Care

• Luke Troynar
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Decoding the Political Ideology of Internet Meme Subcultures Using Pragmasemiotic Methods

• Guangnan (Rio) Zhu
  

  PhD Candidate l Thesis - A novel framework for detecting and analysing coordinated inauthentic behaviour using multimodal data

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